Improvement in cutting cigar-wrappers



S. SCHOLFIELD,

Improvement in Cutting Cigar-Wrappers.

N0. 132,183; Patented Oct. 15,1872.

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SOCRATES SCHOLFIELD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUTTING CIGAR-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,183, dated October15,1872; antedated October 12,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOCRATES ScHoLErELD, of Providence, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improved Mode ofCutting Out Wrappers for Covering Cigars, of which the following is aspecification:

The nature of my invention consists in cutting out both ends of thewrapper in a proper hooked or curved form to cover the tapering head ofa cigar, in order that either end may be optionally used, as best-suitedfor this purpose. The object of this improvement is to prevent, in ameasure, the waste and loss caused by accidentally tearing off theheading-points of some of the wrappers when running them into themachine, which, in the use of my improvement, is prevented by simplyunwindin g and reversing the ends of the wrapper, and again rolling itonto the cigar, the torn or broken end of the Wrapper in this instancebeing used to cover the tuck end of the cigar, while its opposite end isstill properly pointed for covering the head. It is also the object ofthis improvement to enable a greater percentage of perfect Wrappers tobe cut from a pad consisting of many superposed leaves, and also togreatly abridge the time required to arrange a single leaf in properrelation to the cutter or die employed, since it is hardly probable,even when no special care whatever is exercised to place the leaf so` asto avoid the veins in cutting out the heading-points ofthe Wrapper, thatmore than a very triing percentage of such wrappers would prove alikedefective at both ends.

The great cause of imperfection in wrappers out in quantities from apadof leaves consists in the occurrence of a vein of the leaf at the tip orheading-point of the wrapper, which, by its rigidity, prevents it frombeing folded around the head of the cigar in a suitable manner; but bymaking both ends of the Wrapper in a proper shape for covering the headof the cigar, and using the end which chances to be most suitable forthat purpose, the great source of waste in rapid cutting which has beenheretofore experienced is nearly removed, since, if under ordinarycircumstances, as heretofore, ten per cent. of the wrappers cut from apad may have been defective at the heading-point from the causementioned, or which may have been rendered defective from imperfectionsupon the edge of the wrapper consequent upon imperfect padding, or fromthe local imperfections of the leaves, then we will also suppose thatthe same proportion will obtain in regard to the perfection of theopposite end of the wrapper when cut according to my improvement,one-tenth of the extra heading-points thus furnished also provingdefective. Thus, when in the former case ten wrappers in every hundredwould be rendered useless from defects in cutting, nine-tenths of suchnumberwould be perfect at the opposite end, leaving only one per cent.to be discarded as Worthless as against ten per cent. by the old method.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a plan view of a hollow cutter ordie for cutting ont my improved wrappers, with two headingpoints 5 Fig.2 shows a sectional view of the same taken in the line a c; Fig. 3 showsthe form of the wrapper as used heretofore, having but a singleheading-pomme; and Fig. 4 shows my improved wrapper with a vein, b,running across one of the heading-points, which would cause such wrapperto be discarded if the opposite end had not been cut out for use in suchan emergency.

A male and female die, made in the form specified, may be used insteadof the cutter shown in Figs. 1 and 2, if preferred. The eX- act shape ofthe heading-points is not deemed essential, it only being requisite thatthey be both so curved or hooked as to suitably perform the functionrequired.

I claim as my invention- 1. A cutter or die, curved or hooked at itsopposite extremities, substantially as described, for` the purpose ofcutting out cigar-wrappers, that may be optionally used at either end,to cover the head of the cigar.

2. A reversible cigarwrapper, curved or hooked at both ends, for thepurpose specified.

SOCRATES SCHOLFIELD.

Witnesses A. R. ABBOTT, B. E. BoRDEN.

